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Company snapshot — The AES Corporation

AES in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
AES generates and distributes electricity through four business lines: renewables, regulated utilities, energy infrastructure and newer energy technologies. It builds and runs power plants that sell electricity to utilities, industrial customers and other buyers, and it also operates utilities that deliver power directly to homes, businesses and government users. The company draws on a mix of fuels and technologies, including solar, wind, hydro, gas, coal and battery storage, and sells surplus power into wholesale markets. It operates across several countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. AES is based in Arlington, Virginia, and was previously called Applied Energy Services.
Where it sits in the stack
AES carries no seat in Closelook's index, so it sits in the diary's utilities and power-generation sleeve rather than inside the AI build-out stack itself. Its link to the build-out is indirect: data centres and chip plants need grid capacity and long-term power contracts, and AES is one of the diversified generators able to supply that demand.
Who it is priced against
Vendor material gives no peer group for AES; a name the market often mentions alongside it is NextEra Energy, another US power generator with a large renewables arm.
Why Closelook tracks it
AES sits in the S&P 500 but holds no seat in Closelook's own index, carries no Closelook score, and has not yet appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether AES signs more long-term power agreements with data-centre or chip-fabrication customers, since that would tie its generation growth directly to the AI build-out.

The AES Corporation (AES) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for AES, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Utilities - Diversified · 7 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Utilities - Diversified

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against AES on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is The AES Corporation (AES)?

The AES Corporation trades as AES on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is AES in a Closelook index?

Not currently — The AES Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does AES trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +0.7% vs the 50-day and +2.4% vs the 200-day average, 14.8% below the 52-week high and +24.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does The AES Corporation do?

AES generates and distributes electricity through four business lines: renewables, regulated utilities, energy infrastructure and newer energy technologies. It builds and runs power plants that sell electricity to utilities, industrial customers and other buyers, and it also operates utilities that deliver power directly to homes, businesses and government users. The company draws on a mix of fuels and technologies, including solar, wind, hydro, gas, coal and battery storage, and sells surplus power into wholesale markets. Vendor material gives no peer group for AES; a name the market often mentions alongside it is NextEra Energy, another US power generator with a large renewables arm.

Where does The AES Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

AES carries no seat in Closelook's index, so it sits in the diary's utilities and power-generation sleeve rather than inside the AI build-out stack itself. Its link to the build-out is indirect: data centres and chip plants need grid capacity and long-term power contracts, and AES is one of the diversified generators able to supply that demand. AES sits in the S&P 500 but holds no seat in Closelook's own index, carries no Closelook score, and has not yet appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for AES, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Utilities - Diversified, then Utilities. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.